Naming
What is the author's preferred general term for people who are the first to occupy a land?
Indigenous Peoples?
What country does Wolfe use to discuss the dispossession and symbolic treatment of Aboriginal peoples?
Australia
What does Pakachoag mean?
Where the river bends
What was the name of the school newspaper in the past?
The Tomahawk
Why is Canadian not used when referring to settlers?
Because the term Canadian did not exist during the time period that involved settlers and the Indigenous peoples.
According to Wolfe, why does settler colonialism destroy?
It destroys to replace and rebuild
People of the fresh water
Who was the Penobscot baseball player who played at HC?
Louis Sockalexis
It is the language used in their laws, for example, the Indian Act
Wolfe argues that settler colonialism is inherently _____, but not always genocidal.
eliminatory
The 1675–1676 conflict that devastated many Indigenous communities in southern New England is commonly called?
King Philip's War
What was destroyed during the construction of the Jo, and why is it significant?
The rock that John Eliot spoke on
What did Indigenous peoples use to create names/titles for the settlers in their language?
The physical or behavioral characteristics of the settlers
What were the institutions Wolfe used as examples of places where Indigenous children could be resocialized?
Missions and boarding schools
What was the land feature that the Nipmucs decided to live by?
A spring
In what ways was Indigenous culture mocked at HC?
Pow-wows, paid performers, caricature of an indigenous person playing football in the Tomahawk, students would dress up as "indians"
What does Vowel suggest we do when we are unsure of how to refer to people?
ask the person/community what they prefer to be called
How does Wolfe describe settler invasion in a single phrase, emphasizing that it continues over time rather than being a single historical event?
invasion is a structure, not an event
Who was the minister who first preached to the Nipmuc people?
Rev John Eliot
Catholic Indigenous peoples from where would camp out in Worcester to receive sacraments from whom?
They were from Maine and came to see Father Fitton